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Walking: Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health
Hardback
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Description for Walking: Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health
Hardback. This book features a multidisciplinary focus on walking as a mode in the context of transportation, urban planning and health. Breaking down the silos, this book presents a multidisciplinary focus bringing together research from transport, public health and planning to show linkages and the variation in experience around the world. Series: Transport and Sustainability. Num Pages: 351 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH; RNU; RPT; TR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe. Walking as a research area is multifaceted and this book presents chapters which synthesise the current state of research and practice, which will be of interest to readers, both academic and professional, and point to areas that will feature prominently in future research domains. Although the links between transport and health have long been recognised in the transport and health disciplines separately, it is a fairly recent phenomenon that ... Read more
This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe. Walking as a research area is multifaceted and this book presents chapters which synthesise the current state of research and practice, which will be of interest to readers, both academic and professional, and point to areas that will feature prominently in future research domains. Although the links between transport and health have long been recognised in the transport and health disciplines separately, it is a fairly recent phenomenon that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Transport and Sustainability
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787146280
SKU
V9781787146280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Hardback
Corinne Mulley is the founding Chair in Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Klaus Gebel is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the School of Allied Health at Australian Catholic University in North Sydney, Australia. Ding (Melody) Ding is a Senior Research Fellow at Sydney School of ... Read more
Reviews for Walking: Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health
Public health, transport, planning, and other researchers from the US, Europe, Australia, Colombia, Canada, and Korea provide 19 chapters on walking and health, sustainable transportation, and urban planning, many based on papers presented at Walk 21 in Sydney, Australia, in October 2014. They discuss the prevalence and trends in walking, including health benefits, the economic value of walking, walking to ... Read more